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During a now notorious production of Lohengrin, Vienna's late, famed Tenor Leo Slezak missed his entrance cue (so the story goes), and the swan appeared onstage alone, drawing an empty skiff. During the ensuing flap, Tenor Slezak's voice was clearly heard from the wings, in the manner of an annoyed traveler addressing the stationmaster: "When does the next swan leave...
...incident could not have happened last week at Bayreuth, where Richard Wagner's grandson Wieland staged a Lohengrin so abstract that the swan was merely a sketchily suggested stationary prop, while the hero made his exit on a descending elevator platform. Since 1951. Wieland Wagner, 41, alternating with his younger brother Wolfgang, 38, has been staging the most effective Wagner productions to be seen anywhere. (He has now redraped all the standard Wagner operas with the exception of The Flying Dutchman, which he will stage in 1960.) Last week's de-swanned Lohengrin was among the best...
...schoolboy, Anthony is an odd one: an American with a background of wealth and parental indifference attending a Parisian lycee. At 15, eating ice cream and plum cake in a tearoom near the Madeleine, Anthony finds the courage to speak worshipfully to Christiane Mondor, a 22-year-old, swan-necked beauty who is moving through her first season of heady triumphs on the stage...
...danced like a dream-gay, relaxed, with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent]. And I didn't have cross-eyes...
...SOVIET MOVIE SWAP will be made for first time since World War II. Hollywood plans to lease a dozen hits-Picnic, Oklahoma!, etc.-to U.S.S.R. for $50,000 to $100,000 each, get about six Russian films for showing in U.S., e.g., Swan Lake, Othello, Don Quixote...